Description
Creamy cinnamon cream cheese muffins deliver a delightful morning surprise with their rich, swirled filling and tender crumb. Warm spices and silky cream cheese create a comforting breakfast treat you’ll crave again and again.
Ingredients
Scale
Main Ingredients:
- 2 cups (480 milliliters) all-purpose flour
- 1 cup (240 milliliters) granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup (240 milliliters) milk
- 8 ounces (225 grams) cream cheese, softened
Wet Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup (120 milliliters) unsalted butter, melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Seasoning and Topping Ingredients:
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 cup (60 milliliters) powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon sugar mixture
- Optional: 1/4 cup (60 milliliters) white chocolate, melted (for drizzle)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375F (190C) and prepare a muffin tray with paper liners, ensuring even spacing.
- Sift together flour, granulated sugar, baking powder, salt, and ground cinnamon in a large mixing bowl, creating a uniform dry mixture.
- Whisk melted butter, milk, eggs, and vanilla extract in a separate container until the wet ingredients are thoroughly integrated and smooth.
- Create a well in the center of the dry ingredients and pour the liquid mixture, folding gently until just combined without overmixing.
- Cream together softened cream cheese and powdered sugar in a small bowl until achieving a silky, lump-free consistency.
- Fill each muffin liner halfway with batter, carefully place a central dollop of cream cheese filling, then cover completely with remaining batter.
- Generously dust the muffin tops with prepared cinnamon sugar mixture, ensuring complete coverage.
- Slide the muffin tray into the preheated oven and bake for 18-20 minutes, monitoring until the tops turn golden and a inserted tester emerges clean.
- Allow muffins to rest in the tin for several minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack, optionally drizzling with melted white chocolate before serving warm.
Notes
- Enhance moisture by using room temperature ingredients, ensuring smoother batter and more even baking.
- Avoid overmixing the batter to prevent tough, dense muffins; stir just until dry ingredients are incorporated.
- Customize the recipe by substituting gluten-free flour for a celiac-friendly version or using Greek yogurt instead of milk for extra protein.
- Create make-ahead magic by preparing the dry and wet mixtures separately the night before, storing them refrigerated, and combining just before baking for fresh morning muffins.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Category: Breakfast, Snacks, Desserts
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 12
- Calories: 230 kcal
- Sugar: 14 g
- Sodium: 190 mg
- Fat: 11 g
- Saturated Fat: 6 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4 g
- Trans Fat: 0.2 g
- Carbohydrates: 29 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 4 g
- Cholesterol: 50 mg